martedì, novembre 28, 2017

I love Debbie Tung and her drawings, because I feel exactly like she does most of the times, but I'm not able to express my feelings, and I would love to. the life of an introvert is not easy even if we spent time trying to adapt, so I appreciate the levity with which she handles the topic.

As succulent's addicted I learnt a lot from this book, which is not super long but pretty dense, more, there is a 100 list of succulents to learn from, so you have the specific plant explanation. Very good book if you are a plant lover.

Regardless all the doubts I still have towards the ketogenic diet, I still find this recipes book very interesting and well written and made me choose to buy a slow coker, because I think that some meals are worth a try, even if are not set in this specific diet.

I had waited for this book so long that of course I was going to be disappointed, but not so much. Luke and Josie the little photographer have chemistry between them, but in a way she too much bipolar to be believable. Anyway it's a good book because we got a glimpse of almost everybody from the Hell's eight and it was a good thing because so much time has passed since the first book. This will always be one of ma favorite western romance series.

Another dark view on our future due to the web and cyber espionage etc.etc. I wonder when it will be possible to control a lot of the things we cannot control right now, even because our government doesn't want us to be able to control them. Scary.

I did not really liked this book because the relationship between Kathryn, Susan and Charge has something deeply disturbed and disturbing, although the premises, very similar to the X-Men, were all there for the story to be intriguing enough.

domenica, novembre 26, 2017

Although this book is, at times, a little scary, it is also true that the author tends to repeat himself, and sometimes assumes the omniscient and paternalistic attitudes that I didn't really appreciate. In part this essay was pretty interesting though several of his conclusions differ from mine, but it is still true that he is the guru of the media between the two of us. The statement on cephalopods, however, is alone worth the whole book.

venerdì, novembre 24, 2017

Cool krimi, but this time I would have preferred the paper version due to the continuing time jumps, and also I sometimes run too fast trough the book and I had to come back to check who was the victim and in what time, still it was a very enjoyable well written page turner. Very disappointing anyway, was that the book stops at 90% because there is a short story after and this negatively surprised me, because I was still waiting for some sort of explanation that never came.

I'm delighted that in this book there are no more explicit told rape and killings and all the "happy stuff" that fulled up the previous books. As usual a page turner even if the final cliffhanger is one thing that is reiterative in her novels.

Nice book where a lot of authors tell their opinion about becoming a writer, failing, methods and means and what does "being a writer" means to them. Fascinating but I would recommend it to read it all not all together. this is a book to savor slowly.

This book may help us to understand the type of fatigue we have, so to use the right method to going back to rightfully rested, which is the most important thing. Easily handed method and explanations help us to apply what the author is talking about and find the right solutions to being constantly tired.

I preferred the first part, this second one has the usual problem of Frazier in my opinion: the dead never stay dead and the bad guy never goes away. So ok, it could have been a bigger but only novel, it would have been better, in my opinion of course.

Through the analysis of the life and behavior of some "famous brothers" and several sketches of the life of the author, we have a more or less psychological examination of "how is the life" for people with siblings or, even if much reduced in terms of pages, without them.

martedì, novembre 21, 2017

The adult version of this book was not so much appreciated by me, it seemed a sort of blasphemy, but this child version is way better in my opinion and the books they enlist, are really interesting and I'm trying to find some of them, even if it's mostly directed to English/American public.

Not the first book that I read about eating mindfulness, but in my opinion one of the best explained and I really appreciate the chapter related to children. Learning to understand our different hungers could really make the difference in our behavior towards food.

The controversial topic of psychedelic drugs/medicine is here handled trough a series of interview made by Dr. Richard Miller to some experts of the field. What emerges is a very difficult field of research because managing that type of drugs goes with a lot of problem of management. There are some very interesting information but it seems being able to apply what emerges it will take ages because of the law limitations. The strict relationship between medicine, politic and law are in this subject so intertwined that it doesn't depend in the end on the state of the art.

sabato, novembre 18, 2017

I was hoping for something better, because Sherlock Holmes is one of my favorite literary characters. I do not know what I expected, however, perhaps a miracle that turn me into a wizard of deductions, so it is not, however, the author offers insights and valuable suggestions, plus it reminded me of some of my favorite stories.

Brilliant book that tries to explain a very popolar concept: populism (pun intended). As a political concept that has behind itself no political theory, it's not easy to get to understand exactly what characterizes populism, but it's very sad for me, that Italy is one of the most referred to country to explain the topic....

This is the first book that I read that is completely dedicated to Orthorexia and I found it very good. I usually read about this disorders related to other eating disorders but this time the author took her time to describe in details and explain the vary hidden meaning of specific behavior. In the end it's not the solution for the problem but it is still a good first step to acknowledge a problem and try to find a solution trough a professional help..

I didn't really liked this novel, mostly because it was the same old story told and retold, and I picked it up to review because I thought it was about book, but it's just chick lit and not so entertaining also.

I followed Prof. Puchner course on EDX and this book was just the natural corollarium. It was interesting to get to reread something new and to crystallize previous knowledge, but if you haven't foollowed his course on World Literature I recommend it because it is one of the most interesting on the MOOC series.

Bittersweet novel of a very strange friendship based on dorayaki and sweetbean. The hidden history of Hansen's morb in Japan and the way it changed the life of the sick people. Not a page turner but still a good story.

Meh...I don't know, after Rupi Kaur I think there is an inflation of this "twitter poems" all around. As I'm far from being a poetry expert I cannot say what really bothered me about this book, but mostly I got this feeling that I could have written something similar on my diary when I was an adolescent, but some I found good enough. Mixed feelings in the end.

Compared to the first book, this was not so funny, even if the last 200 pages are better than the first. Unfortunately, as always happens with trilogies, the second book seems always just a bridge to get to three .....

What is the multicultural philosophy? Is it true that the "real philosophers" where only to be found in the western world? Then what about Confucius and the Chinese philosophy`? Can we say that there is a dialogue going on between the different traditions? And what about the Indians? And what does LCTP means? To this and some other questions the author tries to answer in a clear way to show how important it is not to consider philosophy only the "usual" one.

I'm sorry to say that this huge volume was not as funny as I thought, mostly because the diaries of very funny writers, last example was Sedaris' , are to me not funny at all. I always have this sensation of spying and it's not good. Moreover, the obituaries were about people I don't know, mostly because I am not English, and the radio plays not as usual. I liked some of the introductions but it was not enough for more than 700 pages....

I love Debbie Tung and her drawings, because I feel exactly like she does most of the times, but I'm not able to express my feelings, and I would love to. the life of an introvert is not easy even if we spent time trying to adapt, so I appreciate the levity with which she handles the topic.

The best way to arrange your plants, the best plants to have inside and outside your house and the best plant and easy plant to keep and how to make them thrive. A very useful book that I would have loved reading it before...

Great graphic novel about the difficult life of Oskar Monet, his struggle to invent something new, or as it was called: the invention of light. Very good illustration, some of which are based on real paintings of the many artist who where, for some reason or other, involved with Monet.